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Karl Axelsson is Associate Professor in Aesthetics at the University of Agder's Faculty of Humanities and Education since 2022, following academic appointments as Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University (2017-2024), Uppsala University (2011-2016), and Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Cambridge (2007-2010).
His educational background includes a PhD in Philosophy from Uppsala University (2007).
Research focuses on aesthetic theory, philosophy of religion, and cultural theory with deep specialization in Shaftesbury scholarship, Cambridge Platonism, and environmental aesthetics. Axelsson examines historical connections between natural beauty, moral philosophy, and societal structures, increasingly linking 18th-century British thought to contemporary climate crisis discourse.
Recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate sustained engagement with Shaftesbury's aesthetics, environmental philosophy, and political dimensions of taste. His work shows clear progression from textual analysis toward applied environmental ethics, with significant contributions to the Oxford Handbook of the Sublime and British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
Scientific awards: No awards or fellowships were documented in the source material.
Teaching includes master's-level Critical Theory and Adorno (philosophy of science/method), and bachelor's Examen Facultatum (English) (applied philosophy). No student advisement details or research grants were provided.
He participates in the Sensus communis research group dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of Literature, Aesthetics, and Nature.
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